On 11/03/2010 03:13 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Lamar Owen wrote: >> Might want to check the power supply as well. Bad/flakey >> power can indeed case damage to the drive surface; been >> there, done that, have two Maxtor 250GB drives with >> scribbled servo data to prove it. > OK. > > I'm running the server from an APC UPS Back-UPS 650, so > there should not be any glitches in the power supply, should > there? Lamar was probably talking about the machine's *own* power supply. The one inside the computer case. When they start to fail they can produce incorrect DC voltages and then you can get all kinds of weird failures. -- Benjamin Franz